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Kirstin Allio’s novels are Buddhism for Western Children (Iowa, 2018) and Garner (Coffee House, 2005), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Clothed, Female Figure (2016) won Dzanc Books’s Short Story Collection Prize. Other honors include the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award, a PEN/O. Henry Prize, the American Short(er) Fiction Prize from American Short Fiction, and a fellowship from Brown University’s Howard Foundation. Her stories and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in The Southern Review, Seneca Review, AGNI, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Redivider. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island. (updated 10/2020)